About the Authors
- J. Quincy Brown
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Contributed equally to this work with: J. Quincy Brown, Torre M. Bydlon
* E-mail: jqbrown@tulane.edu
Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Torre M. Bydlon
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Contributed equally to this work with: J. Quincy Brown, Torre M. Bydlon
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Stephanie A. Kennedy
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Matthew L. Caldwell
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jennifer E. Gallagher
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Marlee Junker
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Lee G. Wilke
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Current address: Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- William T. Barry
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Current address: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Joseph Geradts
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Nimmi Ramanujam
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Brown, Ms. Junker, and Dr. Ramanujam own stock in, and have been employed by or provided consulting services for, Zenalux Biomedical, Inc., a company which developed a 2nd-generation version of the technology described in this manuscript. Zenalux Biomedical has licenses, or options to license, intellectual property invented by Dr. Ramanujam and Dr. Brown. Zenalux Biomedical did not support any of the original work reported in this manuscript, either in cash or in kind. The relationship of some of the co-authors to Zenalux Biomedical, Inc. does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JQB TMB LGW JG NR. Performed the experiments: JQB TMB SAK MLC JEG MJ LGW JG. Analyzed the data: JQB TMB SAK WTB. Wrote the paper: JQB TMB NR. Designed the software for automated counting of adipocytes in tissue sections: MLC.